My newfound love of amaranth has made for some fun (although a bit messy!) breakfast times. However, the health benefits or amaranth outweigh the mess. Here is my basic amaranth recipe, along with 4 ways to make an amaranth breakfast (or snack).

Basic Amaranth Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup amaranth

2 cups water

Directions:

Combine amaranth and water in your instant pot

Set manual high pressure to 6 minutes

Open instant pot using quick release method

Use one of the recipes below to make your amaranth

Amaranth Breakfast Cookies

My three year old, Sydney, loved the amaranth breakfast cookies. Probably because I said we were having cookies for breakfast!

Amaranth Biscuits

Amaranth applesauce porridge

When starting solids with my 6 month old, we decided to do a mix of baby led weaning and purees, but my daughter has no interest in being spoon fed. Instead, I offered her a preloaded spoon with the goodness of my amaranth applesauce porridge.